Germany’s Free Speech Trial
The red imbeciles who are ruining Germany will also ruin your life if you mock them. Satire is no longer accepted as criticism.
Germany’s Free Speech Trial: A Meme, a Minister, and the Criminalization of Dissent

In what most Americans would consider unthinkable, a prominent German journalist working in the country’s alternative media, has been slapped with seven-month suspended prison sentence for sharing a satirical meme mocking a former left-globalist government minister.
The case has ignited international concern over Germany’s accelerating war on free expression—and raised eyebrows far beyond Europe.
Last April, David Bendels, editor-in-chief of the national-conservative outlet Deutschland-Kurier, was sentenced by a court in Bamberg to seven months’ probation after posting a doctored image criticizing former Interior Minister Nancy Faeser—a social democrat politician who’s written articles for a publication with links to far-left extremism.
The punishment also included heavy financial penalties and a court-ordered written apology to the former minister herself. The image at the center of the case showed Faeser holding a sign reading “I hate freedom of expression,” a satirical alteration of a real photograph. Bendels argues the post was unmistakably political satire—an argument the kangaroo court rejected outright. Continue reading Germany’s War On Free Expression: The Criminalisation of Dissent

























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